Spam == Quotes?
As some of you might know I get a reasonable amount of spam. This one came through this morning and made it through my filters. There wasn’t a link, so it must be a test run. Mail servers will usually bounce an email back to the sender when the destination email box doesn’t exist. Spammers can use this as a tool in determining if an address exists. They send one email to a seemingly valid address and another to a known bogus address. If the bogus email gets bounced and the valid one doesn’t then they know the valid address is truly valid. If neither email comes back, then they keep going. After all sending an email has no real cost.
Anyway, here is the content of the spam:
“First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to
our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or
studied actions. A man’s look is the work of years; it is stamped on his
countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of
nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.” William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt?
I looked him up on Google which lead me to WikiQuotes. (Link) Interesting stuff and good timing as well as I enter another cycle of job interviews. I had 5 or 6 new leads appear yesterday. A couple look really good. A got another good one this morning and I need to finish up reformatting/cleaning up my resume today. Reading through my resume last night, I found a few niggles that I don’t like. So, I need to rework it. Seeing the Hazlitt quotes just reminds me to not be modest. I have done a lot of stuff and if I want a challenging position where I can grow and make a good salary, I need to step up and represent myself better.
Enough said.
Off to a team meeting…
